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Steve Bannon steps down from Breitbart News

Many retailers reported that the book sold out almost immediately. Aides happy Bannon suffering public rebuke
Inside the White House, Bannon was viewed as the keeper of Trump’s nationalistic flame, charting the progress on the president’s promises to his base on dry erase boards in his office. Breitbart announced Tuesday that Bannon would step down as executive chairman of the conservative news site, less than a week after Bannon’s explosive criticisms of Trump and his family were published in a new book. The company announced it is ending its relationship with Bannon, stating its programing agreement is with Breitbart. As Trump aides called him disloyal and disgraceful, the president branded his former chief strategist on Twitter as “Sloppy Steve,” an apparent reference to Bannon’s often unkempt appearance, and declared that “he lost his mind” when he was pushed out of the White House last August. After days of silence amid withering criticism from his former colleagues and his largest benefactor, Bannon tried to make amends. Trump threatens former ally Steve Bannon and book publisher with legal action

A report on the Breitbart website quotes Bannon saying, “I’m proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class news platform.”
Trump lashed out at Bannon for comments made in Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which questions the president’s fitness for office. But Bannon was marginalized in the months before his ouster over Trump’s concerns that the top aide was being viewed as an Oval Office puppeteer. One said Bannon was telling people as recently as Monday that he expected to stay on. Copies of the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff are displayed at Barbara’s Books Store Friday. But since Bannon’s quotes in the Wolff book emerged, the White House began sending Republicans and conservative figures a clear message: Trump or Bannon. Bannon’s breakup with Breitbart is also costing him his daily show on the conservative talk station on satellite radio network SiriusXM. Steve Bannon leaves Breitbart News3:14